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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: former u.s. senator chuck hagel faced a hostile reception today from half of the committee that must sign off before he can become secretary of defense. his senate confirmation hearing centered heavily on criticism from his one-time republican colleagues. the atmosphere was friendly enough at the outset as chuck hagel began his big day before the armed services committee. he quickly sought to allay concerns on both sides about his positions on everything from iran to israel to nuclear weapons. >> no one individual vote, no one individual quote, no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record. my overall world view has never changed: that america has and must maintain the strongest military in the world. >> i believe, an
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>> because there's a new technology opportunity here that wasn't really present four or five years ago, and the opportunity now exists in the similar way to the genome project about 30 years ago to build an intrp based upon new technology involving nanotechnology, opto genetics, some things that are pretty recent. and to be able to understand want brain there the way we really can't right now. right now we can measure the activityave single brain cell, a neuron, see when it fires. or we can look at the whole brain in pictures like you just saw in this segment--mr i scans, pet scans-- but there is a big intermediate zone there where you want to understand entire circuits in the brain and how they function when the brain is actually doing something, that has been out of our reach. we have not had the ability to do that kind of simultaneous recording of thousands of neurons to see what they're up to. that's what this brain activity map is all about. >> suarez: it sounds like you're describing an "if we build it they will come" sort of enterprise. who would gather underneath that roof? wha
>> because there's a new technology opportunity here that wasn't really present four or five years ago, and the opportunity now exists in the similar way to the genome project about 30 years ago to build an intrp based upon new technology involving nanotechnology, opto genetics, some things that are pretty recent. and to be able to understand want brain there the way we really can't right now. right now we can measure the activityave single brain cell, a neuron, see when it fires. or we...
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>> it was not all technology. certainly, they did extraordinary things with technology. the effort that they put into it, the amount of money they invested in it. and the sophistication of what they were trying to do was well beyond what they did in 2008, and we all thought in 2008 they had kind of broken the mold. technology was an important in factor in it. i think another was that they did an enormous amount of research about what the right message was, and part of that was to try to get a better understanding of kind of where voters were, what were their hopes and dreams, what were their anxieties. and they came out with this idea that if this campaign was fought on the question of barack obama's handling of the economy, then he was going to have a very difficult time winning. if they could, in fact, leapfrog beyond that to force a debate about as you look into the future, which of these candidates is going to be better fur as a middle class parent or family? and they came up with that frame which he unveiled really at the speech he did at the end of 2011 in kansas,
>> it was not all technology. certainly, they did extraordinary things with technology. the effort that they put into it, the amount of money they invested in it. and the sophistication of what they were trying to do was well beyond what they did in 2008, and we all thought in 2008 they had kind of broken the mold. technology was an important in factor in it. i think another was that they did an enormous amount of research about what the right message was, and part of that was to try to...
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there are other self-replicating technologies out there which would apply directly to it. i think the broader implications to the biotechnology industry in particular are very significant in this. another federal judge recently another case said we have the broadest and strongest protection for biotechnology and intellectual not the world and we have the strongest biotechnology industry in the world. europe, by contrast, has weaker protection and a weaker industry. i think that's a very compelling argument. >> suarez: before you talked about exhaustion. can a company control what happens to a self-replicating product? anyone -- a gene, an organism, a plant, aspects of software or a musical recording, once the cust walks out the door having purchased this thing? >> well, that's the question. how far does that control go? because both competition policy, which is antitrust, and by lech which you will property are both have as an objective fostering innovation in the economy. the question is how much of this incentive do you need in the form of monopoly and how much in the fo
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right now, technology is driving our economy. we're solving major problems using technology. we're advancing u.s. competitiveness using technology. the technology industry needs all the bright people it can get to help it build these new technologies and improve our economy. >> suarez: is there any burden on the companies, vivek wadhwa, to demonstrate they first tried to locate americans to do these jobs? >> the anti-immigrant groups and people like professor hira have been haranguing companies for hiring foreign workers as if hiring foreign workers is evil so they're on the defensive. the new bills raise barriers. they require a lot of extra documentation. they have to prove they're not taking the jobs of american workers away, and it's leading to negativity about hiring foreigners. again, american companies are trying to compete. they're trying to make america a better place. they're trying to create more jobs for americans. and we're holding them back because of our flawed immigration policies. >> suarez: ron hira, how do you respond to that accusation from vivek wadhwa? >
right now, technology is driving our economy. we're solving major problems using technology. we're advancing u.s. competitiveness using technology. the technology industry needs all the bright people it can get to help it build these new technologies and improve our economy. >> suarez: is there any burden on the companies, vivek wadhwa, to demonstrate they first tried to locate americans to do these jobs? >> the anti-immigrant groups and people like professor hira have been...
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john engates, chief technology officer at rackspace, a cloud computer service company. and bill curtis of cast software. thanks for joining us. bill, i want to start with you. you've seen a little bit of what the administration says they're doing. in plain english, is this the right direction? will it be enough? >> it's the right direction, and they've got an awful lot of money to fix things but there's an awful lot of fixes ahead of them. it's going to take quite a lot of time to fix the entire system. it's not just a web interface problem. there are a lot of problems we're seeing behind the web. >> early on there was this analysis that it should be easy to compare government insurance plans as going online and comparing prices for airline tickets and i think critics seized on that. what's the difference between this web site and what we're used to seeing and doing online? >> what the difference is that when you go online to a web site like amazon or your airline, the data behind those web sites is completely under the control of that one company or that's entity. in t
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debate that would then lead us to a better place, because i never made claims that all the surveillance technologies that have developed since the time some of these laws had been put in place somehow didn't require, potentially, some additional reforms. that's exactly what i called for. that somehow they got there willy, nilly, just sucking in information on everybody and doing what we please with it. that's not the case. our laws specifically prohibit us from survailing u.s. persons without a warrant, and there are a whole range of safeguards that have been put in place to make sure that, that basic principle is abided by. but... but what is clear is that, whether because of the instinctive bias of the intelligence community to keep everything very close and probably what's a fair criticism is my assumption that if we had checks and balances from the courts and congress, that that traditional system of checks and balances would be enough to give people assurance that these programs were run properly. you know, that assumption i think proved to be undermined by what happened after the leaks. i thin
debate that would then lead us to a better place, because i never made claims that all the surveillance technologies that have developed since the time some of these laws had been put in place somehow didn't require, potentially, some additional reforms. that's exactly what i called for. that somehow they got there willy, nilly, just sucking in information on everybody and doing what we please with it. that's not the case. our laws specifically prohibit us from survailing u.s. persons without a...
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would we have had the technology? >> i think modern science has quite a lot to do with this. the science was pretty exhaust tive. they know that it was a male. they know that he died 25 or 30 years, either side of 1485 which is in fact when richard ii was killed on the battlefield. the skeleton, of course has revealed a great deal about the curvature of the spine. they know that this is a person who, for example, had a very high-protein diet which was reserved in those days, in the middle ages, only for the most wealthy and the powerful. and then probably most convincing other than the d.n.a. was the wound including a very large hole we saw as we were led past the skeleton rather refuse rengsally today. a very large hole behind what would have been the left ear of the skull which the experts said was consistent with a blow by a halberd, an ax-like medieval weapon which is consistent with his death. they said he was felled by a tremendous blow from a halberd. i left there pretty well persuaded that this is richard iii, less persuaded that the scholarship will turn upsidedown w
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: on this third day of the new year, the u.s. congress officially re-convened for the 113th time. bringing a new set of faces, to join those already in place; and a familiar set of issues. with the prospect of more battles over taxes, spending and deficits. >> if the senators to be sworn will now present themselves at the desk. >> woodruff: high noon was swearing-in time in the senate today. vice president joe biden, who serves as senate president, administered the oath of office to the freshmen and re-elected members. >> do you so solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic. >> woodruff: the ceremony came just hours after the old congress worked down to th
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: algeria's state news agency now says special forces have completed a mission to rescue dozens of foreign hostages, including some americans. they'd been held by militants tied to al-qaeda. but there are wildly varying accounts of how many got out alive, and how many were killed. >> because of the fluidity and the fact that there is a lot of planning going on, i cannot give you any further details at this time about the current situation on the ground. >> brown: even this afternoon, as secretary of state hillary clinton suggested, the situation in algeria remained confused. the focus was this natural gas compound in the sahara desert seen here in footage from last month. the vast, natural gas facility at in amenas is owned in part by b.p. a
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: washington and the nation were witness again today to the quadrennial pomp and color of a presidential inauguration. it marked the public start to the second obama administration, and it featured presidential appeals to extend prosperity and full freedoms to all americans. as the sun rose over the nation's capital on this monday hundreds of thousands of people began descending on the national mall to witness the occasion. officials estimated 500-700,000 attendees. that was far fewer than four years ago when nearly two million turned out. but today's crowd gave no hint of diminished enthusiasm for the 44th president after a first term that saw bruising battles over health care, financial reform, deficits and spending and more. the man they
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statistics class at telecommunication arts and technology high school in new york city is for students to learn to be producers rather than consumers. >> so i want to hear words like "random number table." in most math class it is teacher gives information and it's kind of linear. you know, i do; you do; we do and then they're tested on it. students feel like this is happening to me. how many polling sectors are in there? yeah. in the statistics class they are going to create their own math. >> we will get a large variety. >> reporter: last fall ms. terry's students were debating the pros and cons of various polling techniques. but to go deeper she had students create exit polls of their own. >> i'm doing exit polls for an a.p. statistics class. >> reporter: on election day they gave them to voters across the city. >> if you want them to learn how to do statistics let them be statses teugss. we're going to end up with thousands of exit polls, large data sets that you have to clean up and it's going to be messy and no one will have done that before. so that data is theirs and whatever t
statistics class at telecommunication arts and technology high school in new york city is for students to learn to be producers rather than consumers. >> so i want to hear words like "random number table." in most math class it is teacher gives information and it's kind of linear. you know, i do; you do; we do and then they're tested on it. students feel like this is happening to me. how many polling sectors are in there? yeah. in the statistics class they are going to create...
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so this particular building being new, being a green technology building, represents a glimmer of hope for children so when they come into this building they have a sense of pride, they have a sense of respect but more importantly they are in a great learning environment. >> reporter: colbert king offered some cautious optimism. >> certainly the building is good but buildings don't teach kids, so there is a limit there, the dunbar community itself is changing demographically dunbar. the dunbar community is changing. it is not the same neighborhood that was there when i attended. it was not the same neighborhood that was there ten years ago and that's sort of the story of the city. >> reporter: in other words, the hope is that dunbar may become another kind of magnet school, in a resurgent neighborhood, once again. if the new environment does attract students, there's plenty of room for growth: the new school was built to house 1,100 students, almost double the enrollment today. >> woodruff: "american graduate" is a public media initiative funded by the corporation for public broadcasti
so this particular building being new, being a green technology building, represents a glimmer of hope for children so when they come into this building they have a sense of pride, they have a sense of respect but more importantly they are in a great learning environment. >> reporter: colbert king offered some cautious optimism. >> certainly the building is good but buildings don't teach kids, so there is a limit there, the dunbar community itself is changing demographically dunbar....
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: our lead story tonight, the president today joined the wave of criticism that has greeted the rocky rollout of online efforts to get people to sign up for health insurance. he conceded the federal web site central to the process has failed to deliver. from the outset health care.gov has been plagued with problems within hour after hour after hour of just trying to find the answer to the question where am i going to have my insurance and what's it going to cost. >> for the first week i tried ii, three different days to try to just log on. >> at fordable care act-- . >> reporter: but today in the white house rose garden president obama added his own criticism to the mix, saying there is no excuse for what he calls kinks it in the system.
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: it's highly secret and far-reaching, and it's been going on for years. it is an enormous database of calls amassed by the national security agency and made public today. the revelation came first in the "guardian" newspaper in london. it reported the "foreign intelligence surveillance court has authorized the n.s.a. to monitor millions of domestic and international calls by verizon customers." in washington, attorney general eric holder declined to go into detail, at a senate hearing. >> without saying anything specific, i will say this, with regard to members of congress have been fully briefed as these issues, matters have been underway. >> brown: later, a white house spokesman defended the program. and, he said the government is not all
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundation and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. after aurora, after virginia tech, after columbine, the question of gun violence becomes a recurring national conversation. this evening, newshour joins pbs in a week of special coverage on the topic of gun violence: "after newtown." the waves of reaction since december's connecticut school shooting continue to reverberate from coast to coast. >> now! ifill: as gun-control activists push for stricter laws. and gun owners chafe against the prospect of new regulation, crossing for... causing for now an increase in sale in firearms and attendance at gun shows. that dpebt is now spreading well beyond washington as cities and states take steps to distance themselves from gun manufacturers. in new york last week, the city school teachers pension fund sold o
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. . >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: as unemployment, growth and budget concerns continue, the man who will lead president obama's new economic team was formally nominated today. the announcement came this afternoon, the latest in a series of major cabinet changes. >> one reason jack has been so effective in this town is because he is a low-key guy who prefers to surround himself with policy experts rather than t.v. cameras. >> brown: with that, the president introduced his nominee to be the next secretary of the treasury, jack lew, the man he made his chief of staff, a year ago yesterday. lew would succeed tim geithner, who drew fulsome praise from the president. >> when the history books are written tim geithner's going to go down as one of our finest secretaries of the treasury
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. >> ifill: and we explore the pros and cons of drone warfare and examine the technology behind it-- the subject of tonight's edition of "nova." >> our mind tries to put it in terms of robot or human? but the reality is a mix. >> brown: we close with politics and a look at the way forward for the republican party, tatdends he nn'iodebt houseten limit for three months. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour."n' >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: secretary of state hillary clinton testified for the first time today about last september's deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. her testimony before senate and house committees was at times tense and even emotional. >> as i have said many times, i take responsibility, and nobody is more committed to getting this right. i am determined to leave the sta
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arts institutions are embracing digital technologies. hari sreenivasan explains. >> sreenivasan: have you ever live-tweeted during an opera? a study by the pew research center looks at the new ways in which cultural organizations are enriching their programs with technology and social media. jeff has that conversation on "art beat." how do you evict hundreds of vultures from living in the trees in your yard? diaco c torngthe dertment ode agriculture, with noisemakers and fireworks. see the story on our "science" page. and on tonight's "need to know," "the long view" focuses on the long-term care of the elderly and the hard choices families have to make. "need to know" airs tonight on most pbs stations. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. judy. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. on monday, we'll look at the hefty price tag for all the pomp and glitter surrounding the presidential inauguration. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. "washington week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs
arts institutions are embracing digital technologies. hari sreenivasan explains. >> sreenivasan: have you ever live-tweeted during an opera? a study by the pew research center looks at the new ways in which cultural organizations are enriching their programs with technology and social media. jeff has that conversation on "art beat." how do you evict hundreds of vultures from living in the trees in your yard? diaco c torngthe dertment ode agriculture, with noisemakers and...
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your job has been displaced by technology. what's on offer for you? over the last three years we've seen this dramatic drop in male work force participation, a lot of people going on social security disability roles. what can obama offer you to get you back in the labor force. >> woodruff: we know he's going to talk about infrastructure, about education. what do you look for? i mean, does it matter how much he spells out the exact nature of what growth... >> i think what david said is important. but when there are eight priorities there's no real priority. all of these are important. but what i want to know he comes away with a sense of urgency tonight. obviously to the american voters it's the economy and jobs. we're looking, judy, at median household income has dropped $3469 over the last decade in this country. and median income is down. we've got a new normal of almost 8% unemployment. there really is a sense of, are there any weapons left in the ordinance to attack this? i think one thing we can be absolutely sure of is the president will talk lo
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but we live in a technologically fluent culture. whether or not everyone shares in that fluency. and among those who know, we have ways, on paper, to deflect asteroids. if we find them early enough before they come in. none of those plans are funded by any agency anywhere in the world. so that's a whole other cultural political challenge that would need to be overcome. for the moment, all we're doing is the meager funds that hasa-- nasa has to do so combined with some other funds around the world is to find the asteroids and track them. now this one that hit russia, yeah it tore up the town a bit but it's not disrupting civilization. if you get asteroids about a kill meet never size, those are large-- kilometre in size those are large enough to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains and that can be really bad day on earth. and so we set up a criterion to find all kilometer class asteroids whose orbit crossed earth and we did a really good job at it. we said okay, let's go a little smaller. how about, how about 100 meter asteroids. let's map them. now we know when
but we live in a technologically fluent culture. whether or not everyone shares in that fluency. and among those who know, we have ways, on paper, to deflect asteroids. if we find them early enough before they come in. none of those plans are funded by any agency anywhere in the world. so that's a whole other cultural political challenge that would need to be overcome. for the moment, all we're doing is the meager funds that hasa-- nasa has to do so combined with some other funds around the...
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the u.s. military has a new order of the day: working up plans for putting women on the front lines. the process was set in motion today at the pentagon. >> not everyone is going to be able to be a combat soldier. but everyone is entitled to a chance. >> brown: with that, defense secretary leon panetta-- joined by the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey-- announced he's ending a 1994 ban on women in combat roles. >> as secretary, when i've gone to bethesda to visit wounded warriors, when i've gone to arlington to bury our dead, there is no distinction that's made between the sacrifices of man and women in uniform. they serve, they're wounded and they die right next to each other. the time has come to recognize that r
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. >> joining us is harper reed, a high tech executive who served as chief technology officer for president obama's reelection campaign. welcome, harper. >> hello. >> hello. >> we spent a year talking about the role of social media in the campaign. how important were twitter, facebook, and +*eupbs gram to e campaign? >> well, it was -- it's interesting to look at 2008 versus 2012. because in 2008 things were just starting -- >> pelley: . >> they were new toys. >> people weren't using them. i like to say like my mom wasn't using them, you know? as more people use these, as more people -- america starts using these they're incredibly important, as you can imagine. >> and are they important because when you get friends or followers on facebook or twitter or tumble -r, amplifying the campaign's message, is that better than hearing it from a politician? >> i think it's more genuine. if i share with you and you're friends on facebook you listen to what i'm saying a little bit more than someone who's far aware shares to you. we see that -- i think it's the same thing as it always has been, which i
. >> joining us is harper reed, a high tech executive who served as chief technology officer for president obama's reelection campaign. welcome, harper. >> hello. >> hello. >> we spent a year talking about the role of social media in the campaign. how important were twitter, facebook, and +*eupbs gram to e campaign? >> well, it was -- it's interesting to look at 2008 versus 2012. because in 2008 things were just starting -- >> pelley: . >> they were new...
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> suarez: the world witnessed something today it had not seen since the 15th century: a sitting pope, benedict xvi, announced he is giving up the papacy. the news reverberated around the globe and stunned many of the world's 1.2 billion catholics. >> it was a big surprise because this doesn't happen all the time. and my first reaction was to pray and to call my friends, texted my friends and asked even my non-catholic and nonbelieving friends to keep us in their thoughts and in their prayers. >> i had never heard anything like this in my life. the pope has to be there until he dies. and he is resigning? >> popes can't resign. this hasn't happened in 600 years. a pope can't resign. thisews n isn't r.htig >> suarez: a pope abdicated in 1294 but the l
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we cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries we must claim its promise. that's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national presence. our crop lands, snow-capped peaks. that is how we will preserve our planet, given to us by god, that will lead meaning to the creed that our fathers once declared. we, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war. our brave men and women in uniform tempered by the flames of battle are unmatched in skill and courage. our citizens feared by the memory of those we have lost know too well the price that is paid for liberty. the knowledge of their sacrifice will keep us forever vigilant against those who would do us harm. but we are as heirs to those that one the peace and not just the war. who turned sworn enemies in to the surest of friends, we must carry those lessons in to this time as well. we will defend our people and uphold our values through strength of arms and rule of law. we will show the courage to try and resolve our differences with oth
we cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries we must claim its promise. that's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national presence. our crop lands, snow-capped peaks. that is how we will preserve our planet, given to us by god, that will lead meaning to the creed that our fathers once declared. we, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war. our brave men and women in uniform...
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: our lead story tonight: neither side gave ground in washington's war over preventing a government shutdown next week. the senate worked on a bill to fund government operations, while republicans in the house kept demanding an end to funding for president obama's health care reform law. "newshour" congressional correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. >> i do not see that happening. >> reporter: speaker john boehner immediately quashed any notion house republicans would accept a stopgap spending bill from the democratic-controlled senate that simply removes a provision de-funding the health care law. boehner would not lay out republican demands, but he did insist again that they want to keep the government running. >> i've made it
supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: our lead story tonight: neither side gave ground in washington's war over preventing a government shutdown next week. the...